Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 61
And now, if you will come to Court, I can doubtless serve you, for I will see that you have a good sale for your fuel."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, serve, see, have · To what, where: Court, you, good sale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Court | case |
| 9 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 serve | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 serve | aux |
| 13 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 serve | amod |
| 14 | serve | serve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 serve | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sale | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sale | amod |
| 26 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 fuel | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fuel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sale | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | you | Court | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | serve | can | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | present | you | a good sale | for your fuel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sale=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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